| 2 Days in the Valley | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| 57 Seconds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Barbie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Batman: The Long Halloween | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blue Steel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bluelock | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series based on the premise of Japan’s national Football (as in Soccer) team committee trying to find the best “ace” for their team through a hyper-competitive program to find someone who isn’t a team player the same way that Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan very much weren’t team players. | ||||||||
| Bone Tomahawk | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Boruto: Naturo Next Generations – The Funato War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Boxed Set 16, with episodes 232-255 | ||||||||
| Desperation Road | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Doc Martin: Last Christmas in Portwenn | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Duel | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Equalizer 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Equalizer Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Expanse | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| For All Mankind | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Full Body Massage | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Fun and Fancy Free | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Goofy Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Blaine: One of Disney’s strongest movies with one of its best soundtracks. | ||||||||
| Guarding Tess | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Hill (2023) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| In Love and War | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Justified City Primeval | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Picture Show (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Last Voyage of the Demeter | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Leave It To Beaver | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Magical Witch Punie-Chan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A dark parody of magical girl anime where the magical girl is a vindictive despot of her magical world | ||||||||
| Make Mine Music | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Melody Time | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mrs. Brown’s Boys: Holly Jolly Jingles | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| My Lucky Stars | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Martial arts film starring 3 of the more high-profile members of the Seven Little Fortunes – Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao | ||||||||
| Nancy Drew | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nun II | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Pooh’s Heffalump Movie | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rail Wars | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Somewhat fanservice heavy anime about train security staff. | ||||||||
| Rapa-Nui | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Rudy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Short Circuit 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sonny Chiba Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Contains The Defensive Power of Aikido, 13 Steps of Maki, Karate Warriors, The Great Okinawa Yakuza War, Karate for Life, Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon, The Okinawa War of Ten Years | ||||||||
| Sound of Freedom | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A Q-Anon propaganda film. (Alex: Jim Caviezel has unfortunately gone down a similar rabbit hole to the ones that Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo have gone down). | ||||||||
| Spider-verse 2 Movie Collector’s Edition | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Sympathy for the Devil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Terms of Endearment | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Best Picture 1983, podcast due June 28, 2024. | ||||||||
| Ultraseven | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | A selection of episodes and films featuring the character of Ultraseven from across the Ultraman franchise. | ||||||||
| Weathering With You | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The previous film from director Makoto Shinkai (his most recent was Suzume) | ||||||||
| WWE: Fastlane (2023) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Young Master | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | One of the earlier films Jackie Chan directed and starred in. | ||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “As someone who can play UHD disks and has a turntable, the Spider-verse collection (with the bonus 7″ record) has some appeal (though I’d have preferred ‘What’s Up Danger’ as the song from Into the Spider-verse). Otherwise that Sonny Chiba collection is going on my to-get list.” Blaine says, “I’d go with Spider-Verse or Strange New Worlds this week.”
I wouldn’t pick up Duel, but it’s a must-see at least once. And there’s one really good film about teens in the 50s, and it doesn’t involve the late twenties John Travolta and early-thirties Olivia Newton-John dancing to discofied rock ‘n’ roll. If you haven’t seen The Last Picture Show, it is rightly considered a cinematic classic.
Strange New Worlds is a natural. I’ve heard great things about For All Mankind but haven’t got around to seeing it.
I haven’t seen Sound of Freedom, but I’m told it’s more covertly Qanon than outright propaganda, ie using the reality of child trafficking and an over-the-top adventure narrative to imply things it knows part of its audience will infer. However, I’ve not seen it.
For All Mankind is excellent. It gets a little soap-opera-y in Season 2 and 3, but it’s fun seeing the stuff NASA and the Soviet Union had on the drawing board actually make it onto the screen. I have not yet started Season 4, but it looks promising.